Episode 166: Tesla's Record-Setting Q3
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2018
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Tesla sets a company record with Q3 production and deliveries, Elon Musk settles – and then spars – with the SEC, a police officer sees a Tesla for the first time during a traffic stop, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast, |
| 0:03.4 | Tesla sets a company record with Q3 production and deliveries Elon Musk settles with |
| 0:09.7 | and then spars with the SEC. A police officer sees a Tesla for the very first time during a |
| 0:15.9 | traffic stop and more. Oh, Howdy friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey alongside a chilled out, Daisy the boxer puppy, still awake for now. We'll see if she makes it through the whole show this week. She almost never does. |
| 0:47.0 | Anyway, this is episode 166 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast for October 7th 2018 and I wanted to kick off |
| 0:56.6 | yet another crazy busy week of Tesla news and activity with a little more discussion about the volunteering at the |
| 1:05.4 | various stores and delivery hubs that's been happening around the country and even |
| 1:10.5 | around the world over the last week or so here in the wake of my tweet to |
| 1:16.1 | Elon that he again sort of inexplicably replied to setting off this this wave of |
| 1:21.6 | owner enthusiasm and support for the Tesla employees who are trying |
| 1:27.6 | to deliver so many cars in that stretch run of Q3 and it was just so great to see. First I did I went back to the |
| 1:35.5 | Fremont Delivery Hub for another round that last Saturday of the quarter there |
| 1:40.4 | Saturday the 29th and And right away, I was greeted by, I met James from the Bay Area, |
| 1:47.4 | a regular caller here on Ride the Lightning, which was great to put... I always love meeting people that listen to the |
| 1:54.4 | podcast and especially ones that have called in. It was like actually getting to put |
| 1:58.2 | the face to the voice is is really really enjoyable really special for me. |
| 2:03.2 | And the Fremont staff, I have to say, |
| 2:07.1 | was once again, just unbelievably gracious, |
| 2:10.7 | both to me, and I witnessed it |
| 2:13.0 | them behaving just as wonderfully |
| 2:15.8 | to the other owner volunteers that showed up. |
| 2:18.6 | I mean, I would go out to say, |
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